Today is Small Business Saturday. The @Conservatives are the party that backs Britain’s small businesses. Join me as I buy my lunch and set out our plan to grow the economy and bring life back to our high streets. This Small Business Saturday - and every day - shop local.

Labour are running scared. We won’t let them get away with it.

What an amazing result 🤩 Thanks to everyone who voted and campaigned for us 💪🏻 CON 622 (65%) LAB 108 (11%) RFM 222 (23%) Our energetic local campaign for the fantastic candidate Adam Brierley, has been truly amazing. Well done everyone on another Fylde #ConGain

Another Reform scandal. Their council leader is a top fan of a white-supremacist page - and is somehow still in post. If you can’t even vet your own leaders, you’re not fit to run a village hall, let alone a political party. Surely, must be suspended. https://t.co/bcHdW9Myqz

The @Conservatives firmly oppose this decision, especially when candidates have been selected and campaigning is well underway. Democracy is being denied yet again after Labour cancelled the council elections earlier this year.

This is the second time Labour have cancelled elections. Democracy isn’t optional. We will oppose this every step of the way.

Christmas is a time to look back and reflect... So today, we're looking back the time someone at "Googaloo" told Keir Starmer a groundbreaking piece of information about AI 🤦‍♂️ It's Day 3 of Labour's #ChristmasCalendarOfChaos🎄🥀

🔹️We cut nearly a 13% lead to under 1% 🔹️Nearly a 6% swing to @Conservatives from Reform 🔹️The first by-election where @Conservatives have numerically increased our vote since Eccleshall in July. 🔹️Majority cut to 23 from 354 (we were 401 behind 🔹️ To 2nd from 3rd

***Readers added context they thought people might want to know*** Community note: This is 20% lower than appointments delivered in a similar period under the Conservatives, who delivered 6.5m the year before.

A Labour minister told a reporter that "the handling of this budget has been a disaster from start to finish." But who said it? @KemiBadenoch has worked it out 👀

Award-winning Yorkshire firm - Yorkshire Handmade Brick - files intention to appoint administrator.🧱😱 Their letter on why Labour 🥀is to blame👇

Remember when Keir Starmer launched Phase 2, and then this happened? It's Day 2 of Labour's #ChristmasCalendarOfChaos 🎄🥀

Delighted to have the opportunity on @GBNEWS this morning to explain why there is every chance @KemiBadenoch will win the next general election and deserve to.

More colleagues have joined me and @stuartandrew in opposing an NHS puberty-blocker trial on vulnerable children. Medicine should protect, not experiment to satisfy activist dogma. We will not stand for it. @wesstreeting must put a stop to this dangerous trial immediately.

This you, Nigel? 👀

This Government found more money for benefits and illegal migrants. But not to get our courts sitting round the clock. So, today, David Lammy is scrapping jury trials for the vast majority of cases.

Help stop the 🇨🇳 Mega-Embassy! Please share this video and please support our GoFundMe to fight this in the courts! https://t.co/PPrmID5bPv

£29 billion...the cost of Rachel's 'save her skin' budget (And that's not going too well either) People are sick of having a government not on their side. I wrote about this in the @Telegraph 👇 https://t.co/aHiDcrjYTr

An alternative, you say?

Key story from the Budget: next year (2026/27) gov’t set to spend £126bn more than Tories had planned pre-Election, building up to nearly £150bn extra in 27/8 & 28/9. This ramp-up in spending is unsustainable & irresponsible, adding around £100bn to taxes + £50bn to borrowing.